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Pope Francis Denounces Exploitative ‘Sirens of Populism’
Breitbart ^ | 11/14/22 | Thomas D. Williams

Posted on 11/15/2022 6:38:38 PM PST by marshmallow

ROME — Pope Francis condemned conservative populists Sunday, accusing them of exploiting people’s real needs with “facile and hasty solutions.”

“Let us not listen to prophets of doom,” the pontiff said in his homily for the World Day of the Poor. “Let us not be enchanted by the sirens of populism, which exploit people’s real needs by facile and hasty solutions.”

“Let us not follow the false ‘messiahs’ who, in the name of profit, proclaim recipes useful only for increasing the wealth of a few, while condemning the poor to the margins of society,” he urged.

Populists exploit people’s fears, the pope suggested, by peddling conspiratorial theories.

“If we think in this way, we let ourselves be guided by fear, and we may end up looking for answers with morbid curiosity in the ever-present chicanery of magic or horoscopes – today many Christians go visit magicians; they consult horoscopes as if they were the voice of God,” he lamented.

“Or again, we rely on some last-minute ‘messiah’ who peddles wild theories, usually conspiratorial and full of doom and gloom – conspiratorial theories are bad, they cause us a lot of harm,” he continued.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Ministry/Outreach
KEYWORDS: 2024election; antipope; climatealarmist; election2024; hypocrite; karenandrun; maga; postandrun; robbingpeter; romancatholicism; sirenofelitism

1 posted on 11/15/2022 6:38:38 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Populism is democracy writ large, Poop.


2 posted on 11/15/2022 6:39:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
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To: marshmallow

Funny. Some might call this Pope the very same thing.


3 posted on 11/15/2022 6:40:15 PM PST by lee martell
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To: marshmallow

Jesus was a populist


4 posted on 11/15/2022 6:42:43 PM PST by Skywise
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To: marshmallow

Yeah, let us be Godless communists instead. Get outta here...


5 posted on 11/15/2022 6:43:30 PM PST by vespa300
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To: marshmallow

I’m sure he’s referring to the WEF, Soros, Gates, Kerry, Biden’s handlers and his cabinet, Pelosi, Schumer, the MSM talking heads...


6 posted on 11/15/2022 6:44:24 PM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: All

I would answer the Pope thusly, “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesars and if he wishes to bray, please do so with the mules and asses”.


7 posted on 11/15/2022 6:47:13 PM PST by BipolarBob (I was born into this world with nothing . . and I still have most of it .)
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To: marshmallow

Sirens of Populism? Like Lauren Boebert and Kayleigh McEnany?

Would make a good name for a rock band too.


8 posted on 11/15/2022 6:47:58 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: marshmallow

Paging Archbp Vigano...Archbp Carlo Vigano...

please pick up the white courtesy phone....


9 posted on 11/15/2022 6:50:49 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: marshmallow

…but Socialism is a virtue to the Pope


10 posted on 11/15/2022 6:51:29 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: marshmallow
"conspiratorial theories are bad, they cause us a lot of harm"

Is this because people never conspire?

Or is it because when people conspire, they should be able to do so in darkness and with impunity?

11 posted on 11/15/2022 6:52:35 PM PST by cockroach_magoo (“Sure we’ll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.”  - Huey Long)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Populism is democracy writ large, Poop.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
It’s a movement of the common people and it terrifies those in positions of power. It has ever since the French Revolution, and the end of the ancien régime. It’s the spectre of the guillotine that haunts them in their sleep!


12 posted on 11/15/2022 7:12:35 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerous psychopaths. They confirm it everyday.)
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To: marshmallow

Is Global Warming not gloom and doom?


13 posted on 11/15/2022 7:23:54 PM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: marshmallow

Sirens of Papalism?


14 posted on 11/15/2022 7:28:26 PM PST by maro (MAGA!)
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To: marshmallow

Not much of a pope they got dere!


15 posted on 11/15/2022 7:30:28 PM PST by The Duke (Never Retreat, Never Surrender!)
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To: marshmallow

Is this guy a Pope or is he a Marxist politician? One thing is sure. He is on the side of Satan.


16 posted on 11/15/2022 7:31:42 PM PST by dforest
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

“Let us not listen to prophets of doom,”

...said the moron antipope, who’s constantly harping about the dangers of climate change, second amendment, free markets...


17 posted on 11/15/2022 7:31:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: marshmallow

This guy might lead my Church, but he doesn’t lead me.
He is an apostate as far as I’m concerned, or maybe he’s a climatologist?
Not sure which…


18 posted on 11/15/2022 7:55:47 PM PST by bantam
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To: bantam

This is the future of the Church.

Popus hates it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/us/latin-mass-revival.html


19 posted on 11/15/2022 10:53:24 PM PST by FreshPrince
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To: marshmallow
As a Catholic who loathes the fake Pope with a passion it's a great relief that he finally decided to rail against the leftist/globalist/NWO filth like Klaus Schwab and Yuval Urinal Harari at the WEF - “Let us not follow the false ‘messiahs’ who, in the name of profit, proclaim recipes useful only for increasing the wealth of a few, while condemning the poor to the margins of society,” he urged.

Which is precisely what the WEF filthbags are planning to do.

20 posted on 11/16/2022 1:14:55 AM PST by Rocco DiPippo
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